Antiderallhitg railway-track



A. F. STOCKWELL.

ANTIDERAILING RAILWAY TRACK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.20, 192i.

1 ,387,872 Patented Aug. 16, 1921.

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fitnesa M UNITED STATES AUSTIN F. STOCKWELL, OF LOS ANGELES; CALIFORNIA.

ANTIDERAIIQING RAILWAY-TRACK.

Application filed January 20, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUs'rIN F. STOCK- WELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Antiderailing Railway-Track, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is more directly applicable to railway curves but may be applied on straight tracks if deemed advisable as at bridges.

An object of this invention is to provide cheap, simple and effective means for preventing the wheels of a railway train from jumping the rails at curves.

The invention is also effective to make it impossible for the rails to spread under the extra strains to which the outer rail of a railway is likely to be put at the curves.

The invention is applicable to various forms of railway, but will be illustrated as applied to a form of railway heretofore atented to me by Letters Patent of the nited States, No. 1,238,140, in which 1 have shown the surface of the bed formed of plates upon which the track rails are secured.

In this invention I apply outside the outside T-rails at the curve of the railway a curved guard railway extending above the top of the T-rail a greater distance than the distance between the tread of the wheel and the periphery of the flange of the wheel. Said guard railway being formed of a plate bent into two limbs, one of which is conformed to the web and lower part of the ball of the T-rail and the other limb of which is connected thereto by a bend and rests upon the railway face plate, and is secured at its lower end against lateral thrust.

Advantages are lightness, cheapness of construction, easy application to the track and security against derailment, either by spreading of the track or by the wheels climbing the rails.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from the accompanying drawing, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention.

Figure 1 is a transverse section of a rail constructed in accordance with this invention and provided with two guard rails as Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16', 1921.

Serial No. 438,619.

the same might be applied over a bridge. Fragments of flanged car wheels are shown on the rails.

Fig. 2 is a fragmental plan of a rail constructed in accordance with this invention at a curve.

Fig; 3 is a perspective of a face plate removed from the track and adapted for a straight portion of a track.

Fig. 4 is a plan of one of the face plates removed from the track and adapted for curves of a track.

The face plates 1 are equivalents of railway ties to which the rails 2, 3 may be fixed by any suitable means as by the clips 4 and lugs 5. The guard rail 6 has a cross section of an inverted V-shaped trough like form. One of the limbs 7 of the trough being conformed to the web of the underside and outer side of the ball of the rail 2. This limb is provided with a vertical plate 8 fitting the web and fastened thereto by bolts 9. The outer limb 10 of the guard rail abuts against the face plate 1 and for greater security engages the projections 11 which may be punchings from the face plates 1 of the track, or may be any suitable Well known equivalent for the same.

In practice at a curve the rails will be fastened to the ties or face plates in the usual manner and then the guard rail bent to the appropriate curve will be fixed in place by bringing the vertical plate into the space between the flange and ball of the rail, and will be fastened to the web of the rail by the bolts 9.

The outer limb of the guard rail thus constructed and applied will be held in place by the outer rail and also by whatever abutments may be provided on the surface plate or ties to prevent lateral movement of the guard rail, and as herein shown by projections.

The guard rails may be made of plate steel, say 1} inch in thickness, bent longitudinally to form an inverted V-shaped trough with a rounding apex 13 and extends above the rail to a height greater than the flange of the wheel, thus to bear on the wheel so that if the wheel were to ride from the rail the outer end of the tread thereof will contact with the inner limb of the guard rail and cause the flange of the wheel to ride upon the ball of the T-rail. The inner limb of the guard rail has a portion horizontal 2 eavers to the crown of the Trail to permit freedom of operation of any portion of the wheel which may overlap the outer side of the T-rail, and a portion extending obliquely in an upwardly direction from said horizontal portion to the rounding apex 13. This limb may be arranged to suitable height so that instead of climbing the guard rail he lateral escape of the wheel will be prevented and the wheel will be deflector by the curve of the guard rail and the oblique portion of said guard rail so as to restore the tread of the wheel to the crown of the T-rail.

llt is possible, by the novel construction set forth, to make the guard rail of lighter ma terials than heretofore because the enormous weight of the car which the flanged W1 eels usually support will still be carried by the T-rail as set forth above.

I claim:

1. A railway comprising surface plates, T-rails fixed to said plates, a guard rail on the outer side of one of the T-rails, said guard rail having limbs one of which e2:- tends obliquely above the level of the crown of the Trails and adiacent to the tread of said rail and adapted to receive outer end of the flanged wheel in case the fl nge of the wheel should ride onto the ball of the IT-rails and the other limb being adapted to rest upon the surface plates of the inilway; and means to fasten said guard rail to the track.

2. A railway comprising surfe plates, T-rails fixed to said plates, a the outer side of one of the i-iails, said guard rail having limbs one of which errtends obliquely above the level of the crown of the T-rails and adjacent to the tread of said rail and adapted to receive the outer end of t ie flanged wheel in case the flange of the wheel should ride onto the ball of the Trails and the other limb bei adapted to rest upon the surface plates of we railway; and means to fasten the guard rail to the web of the T-rail.

3. A railway comprising surface plates, T-rails fixed to said plates, guard rail on the outer side of one of the T-l'nilfi, said guard rail having limbs one of which entends obliquely above the level of the crown. of the T-rails and adjacent to the tread of said rail and adapted to receive tie outer end of the flanged wheel case the flange of the wheel should ride onto the ball of the T-rails and the other limb bei adapted to rest upon the surface plates of we railway;

and means to iasten the guard rail to the web of the T-rail and to the face plate of the track outside said f-rail.

d. A guard rail comprising a plate bent into an inverted V-shaped trough-like form; one limb of said guard rail conforming to the outer side of the T-rail and extending obliquely thereabove to intercept the end of a flanged wheel and permit the flange of said wheel to ride only upon the ball of the rail in case the flange of the wheel were to ride upon the tread of the rail,

5. A guard rail for a railway comprising a metal plate bent into an inverted i -shaped trough-like form and extending above the of the railway, one limb of said plate be'ng conformed to one si e of the track rail and the other limb of the guard rail being adapted to rest upon the rail supports of the railway.

6, A guard rail for a railway, comprising a metal plate bent into an inverted V-shaped trough-like form; one limb of said plate beinn conformed to the outer side of the track rail, and having: a portion horizontal to the top of said rail to accommodate the outer edgre of a flange wheel, and a portion extending upwardly and outwardly in an oblique direction from said horizontal portion; and the outer limb of the guard rail beadapted to rest upon the rail supports of the railway.

7. The combination with a railway comprising surface plates, T-rails fixed to said plates and adapted to support flanged vii 361$; of a guard rail on the outer side of one of said T-rails; said guard rail having:

limbs one of which confrms to the outer side of the T-rails and extends obliquely upwardly and outwardly from the outer edge of a flanged wheel supported on said T-rail.

8. The combination with a railway com-- prising surface plates, T-rails fixed to said plates and adapted to support flanged wheels; of a guard rail on the outer side of one of said T-rails; said guard rail having limbs one of which conforms to the outer side of the T-rails and extends obliquely upwardly and outwardly from the outer edge of a flanged wheel supported on said T-rail; and the other limb of the guard rail being adapted to rest upon the surface plates of e railway. ln testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 11th day of January, 1921.

AUSTIN F, STDCKWELL.

Witness James R. TowNsnNn. 

